JACKSON, Miss. (AP) 鈥� Three separate police shootings in Mississippi in 2022 were justified, the state Attorney General's Office said Tuesday.In one episode, a woman was hit by a stray police bullet while lying in bed. In another, a woman was shot and killed inside a Walmart after taking an ...
NAUGATUCK, Conn. (AP) 鈥� A Connecticut police officer who shocked a shoplifting suspect three times with a stun gun, including when the man was on the ground apologizing, has been charged with third-degree assault and cruelty.Naugatuck Officer Nicholas Kehoss turned himself in to state police ...
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) 鈥� A man accused of shooting and wounding a New Hampshire bishop and the bride at a church wedding ceremony in 2019 fired at the couple just as they were being pronounced husband and wife, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.鈥淲ith just a few shots, the defendant turned ...
A North Dakota woman is accused of fatally poisoning her boyfriend with antifreeze after learning that he planned to break up with her after he received a large inheritance.Steven Riley Jr., 51, became ill when he met with a lawyer Sept. 3 to get the money, witnesses told investigators, ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) 鈥� The United Nations expert on human rights in Haiti said Tuesday that he is alarmed by the rapid spread of gang violence and the bleak future awaiting children in the embattled country.William O鈥橬eill spoke at the end of a weeklong visit to Haiti, his second one ...
In a country shadowed by the threat of mass shootings and neighborhood violence, courts have embraced an increasingly absolute reading of the right to guns. That raises difficult questions about how to protect the <a ...
